Some heavy virtue signalling from them - from Musings from the Chiefio:
Dear Netflix…
I see you have hired Susan Rice on your Board Of Directors.
Now as I see it, there are only 2 possible reasons for doing this. She isn’t exactly a media mogul after all, no screen credits that I know of, not a lot of business acumen on display, hasn’t built a media empire… so what’s left?
1) You are sucking up to The Progressive Socialist Left / Clinton Machine / Obama Wannabee Machine.
2) You are a fellow traveler giving her a great cushy income for doing nothing but “virtue signalling” you are on side.
Now which of these tells me I want YOU to send MY MONEY to HER? Hmmm?
Oh, wait, none of the above.
E. M. Smith goes on to ask the question that the Netflix CEO needs to ask:
Can my company, Netflix, survive a year or two if 1/4 of my audience (say 1/2 of the 1/2 that voted Trump) get pissed off and cancel while they go look for alternatives?
So, can you?
’cause here’s the deal: We’re done with the whole “We’ll be nice and you can be shouting shit in our faces and picking our pockets” thing. It’s “on Mother F…” You hit me with a spit wad, I take out the bazooka.
Netflix has put a lot of time and money into developing an intuative user interface and has some entertaining content. -but- there is a lot of competition out there.
It seems that this cronyism is not limited to just Netflix - from FOX News:
Big tech companies offer gilded safe space for Obama officials
When former national security adviser Susan Rice was named to the Netflix board of directors Wednesday, she became at least the third high-ranking official under former President Barack Obama to receive a top post at a tech giant after leaving the White House.
And a bit more:
But Rice isn't the only Obama alum benefiting here. David Plouffe, a former senior adviser to Obama, was hired by ridesharing company Uber in August 2014 to be its senior vice president of policy and strategy. This past January, Plouffe was lured away from Uber by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help run his Chan Zuckerberg social advocacy organization.
Former White House press secretary Jay Carney has settled down at another titan, Amazon. Carney, who departed the West Wing in June 2014 and spent six months as a political analyst at CNN, joined Amazon in March 2015 as senior vice president for corporate affairs.
They are now reaping their rewards for having enabled these tech giants to make money hand over fist while the US was in the middle of a big recession.
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